Habbie Simpson
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Habbie Simpson
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Habbie Simpson (1550–1620) was the town piper in the Scottish village of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire. Today Simpson is chiefly known as the subject of the poem the Lament for Habbie Simpson. Inhabitants of Kilbarchan are informally known as "Habbies" to this day. The Lament for Habbie Simpson, written by Robert Sempill the younger, was the first notable poem written in the form known as "standard Habbie", or Burns stanza. The Burns stanza was widely used by Burns and Robert Fergusson in their poe
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2023-07-07T21:50:37Z
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